William Alonso was an Argentine-American planner and economist.
10 Facts About William Alonso
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William Alonso was born in Buenos Aires but moved to the United States in 1946 during the Peron regime with his father Amado Alonso, a leading Spanish philologist, who was then appointed at Harvard.
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William Alonso earned a bachelor's degree in architectural science from Harvard in 1954 and a master's degree in city planning from Harvard University's Graduate School of Public Administration in 1956.
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From 1960 to 1961 Alonso worked as director and professor in the Department of Regional and Urban Planning at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia.
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William Alonso then served as a visiting professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1962 before coming to Harvard as the acting director of the Center of Urban Studies from 1963 to 1965.
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William Alonso worked at Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford University.
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In 1976 William Alonso became Director of the Center for Population Studies of Harvard University.
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William Alonso's research was focused on demographic changes, in particular in very urbanized areas.
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William Alonso developed a mathematical model connecting migration and the evolution of the distribution of population.
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William Alonso's model became one of the pillars of urban economics.